The most you've mucked out in a day??

20 - when I was helping out at a previous yard when they were short staffed - I did all the mucking out and other girl did all the feeds, waters and hay. Went home, sat down for 10 mins and actually couldnt get up again. Was in pain for days :D
 
About 40!!
Mind you that was at a stud, and while myself and several others shovelled the muck, a few other chaps did the bedding down with new straw, cleaning out the auto water drinkers, and wiping around the mangers... so actually it wasn't as bad as it sounds! We had (at capacity) 150 boxes. should add, we 'swapped roles' a few times... I preferred the mucking out, rather than the bedding down, which to me was more of a killer.

Currently at work I'm doing 10 each morning.
 
Used to do between 16 & 20 6days per week, full muckouts, hay, water, sweeping up etc plus skip out & do everything evening again. Record was 30, my friend who had 10 at home between her & her parents was in a massive rta, parents obviously at her bedside so I did their 10 after work the first day, & everything next two days for them till she was out of danger & parents took back over.
 
They did something similar at a place I worked once, 150 horses in 5 barns so every day 4 barns were deep littered and just had extra bedding in (round straw bale pushed down the middle of the barn) the fifth was mucked out with a bobcat! It actually worked very well.
 
I used to do 16 every day, Inc nets and water. Had to be finished by 8am. Ah the good old days !!!!!!!!!!!
None now, daughter mucks out, I do nets water feed bowls and muckheap. I'm obsessive about muck heap so she's not allowed to do it. I say I should be on grand designs it's so perfect. She says I should be on a panorama special about OCD.
 
Eeeeeeeeekkkkkk - some of you work very hard!!!!!!!!!

I used to do 30 Saturday and Sunday at a stud in return for my horses livery weekdays. About 20 had a full muck out, 10 deep litter. It took me all day :eek: I had to mix 60 feeds, change about 20 rugs and turn out 30. Then muck out, do hay etc. Then bring 30 in and change rugs and finally feed then home. I sometimes had help from a Saturday girl and I could ride some of the horses if I wanted (mine was a youngster) but I rarely had the energy.
 
Not as bad as it sounds, someone else fed, I filled nets while they ate, then other person started changing rugs and turning out and I began mucking out as stables became empty. You get into a rhythm and routine after a
while and it just flows. Was always ready for a huge breakfast though which was on the table at 8 so I was never late finishing.
 
47 twice a day with feeding, changing rugs, turnout, then back in at 1:30 and then skip out in the evening rugs changed, next mornings hay nets feeds etc made up putting bedding in, full groom on 12 horses, every horse had rug off to check and all horses had feet picked out, 11 horses exercised... and i earned £20 a day doing it... safe to say i didnt do it for more than 3 months although that was 3 months too long!!
 
no idea i was only 16 at the time and if i wasnt paid for it i had 1 hour lesson on my own horse... :o i was a bit of a mug doing 18+ hour days stressing about how much i couldnt physically get done :o
 
Merlin11 said:
Stormy moments are you still for hire? And I thought the girls at my old yard had a lot to do!
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i would be for the right job ;) it was a lot thought i might die most of the time... kept me fit although i havent mucked out more than 13 in a day for the last year or so currently finding mucking out 3 is hardwork when i am working silly shifts :o

although i did get arecord at my last yard of being able to muck out and get hay and water done in 8 mins... running around like a headless chicken though :p
 
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Our yard men muck out 30 a day each. It's not too bad as they go round and fill all the hay racks with hay then muck out - usually waiting until the horses have left their boxs. All of our stables are rubber matted and have a small bed of shavings so it's really easy to muck out.
 
More than 20 I should think (racing yard again) including 6 straw beds which had flooded and had to be totally emptied. Joy.

I had a lovely six pack in those days though!
 
One yard had 50 boxes but we did it between 3 one person would make a big pile of poo one would shovel pile and the other would bed down and I only did that on weekends.
One yard had 24 on rubber matting just on weekends,
and last yard just had 9 but they were big deep beds without matting and although supposed to be 2 of us everyday it was usually me but I actually enjoy it :o
 
I have never worked professionally in the horse world so have only ever done 5 full muck outs in a day and that felt like enough. When my daughter was about 15 she worked at a yard where if the other person didn't turn up you'd have to do 20 in a morning, she did that for some money and some lessons but was exhausted and had no energy for her own horses.
 
6 large stables that had been deep littered all winter:( bloody back breaking pushing the wheelbarrow up into the tractor trailer but between 2 of us we did it . put me off deep littering for life!
 
horsesatemymoney said:
how!?!
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Up very early, organised with a system that works for me, most have haybars, those with haynets are made previous day so just ready to hang and haylage for haybars ready in a huge barrow. Horses on rubber mats so just shovel and sweep. Nobody to distract me so just get on with it. Have already made haynets for tonight and tomorrow morning, and got haylage in barrow ready for tonight. Fresh water half an hour ago and a quick interim muckout just before that to make the final charge lighter. Have only got a final muckout to do, mix feed, final water top-up and give them their hay. Normally have help on a Saturday but they're all off to the rugby today. I know i will be shattered tonight but I have a tub of Ben and Jerry's in the freezer to look forward to.:D
 
Eight is my limit, but that includes a 150 metre there and back trip to the muck heap with a barrow per stable. All the haying up, muck out, fetching new bedding and sweeping up. I could do three times as many in a full day, but then I wouldn't be able to ride or give any lessons, turn out or bring in.

Personally, I find wheeling the barrows the most backbreaking part of mucking out.
 
Most was about 11-12 on yards duty at college. Full muck out, hays and waters, plus feet picked out and rug changes. Then skipping out in the afternoon, doing hay again and water checks. I will do 2 max now if needs must :D
 
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